Maryland used an 11-1 second half run to win in convincing fashion in College Park on Sunday.
For 30 minutes Sunday, it looked like this time around it would be different. For 30 minutes, it looked like Northwestern lacrosse could give No. 1 Maryland a match. And then in a few dire second-half minutes, everything -- a game, a season, an era -- came crashing down.
The Wildcats went into their Elite Eight matchup with top-ranked Maryland as underdogs, having lost to the Terrapins 16-5 back in March, but held their own early, and went into halftime down 6-4.